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Title: A manual of practical hygiene
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Parkes, Edmund Alexander, 1819-1876 De Chaumont, F. S. B. François (Francis Stephen Benet François), 1833-1888
Subjects: Public health Sanitation Military hygiene Hygiene Military Medicine Public Health Sanitation
Publisher: New York : W. Wood & Company
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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cts were manifest. Some of the medical officers had their patients beds carried outinto the corridor when the men could not walk. In the winter greatcoats were pro-vided for the men to put on, and they were then encouraged to go into the corri-dor. 2 Hospital space is to be provided for 10 per cent, of the force. Lately, since thehealth of the army has been so much improved on home service, it has been proposedto reduce it to 7 per cent., but it would appear desirable always to have a large hos-pital space for emergencies and for war. For the duties of administrative medicalofficers with regard to hospitals, see the Medical Regulations, 1878. 12 PRACTICAL HYGIENE. Culinary. — Store-room ; wine and beer room ; larder and meat room ;kitchen ; room for arranging diets ; scullery ; cooks room. Washing.—Washhouse ; dirty linen store ; baking and fumigating room ;cleaning room for mattresses. Stewards Department.—Offices, furniture, linen, utensil, and pack stores ;rooms for cleaning.
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£ bo0) s j3 The amount for storage room is, for an hospital of 100 sick— Bedding and store = 200 square feet. I Fuel store = 250 square feet. Clothing store =100 Foul linen store =120 Utensil store = 160-200 ; Pack store = 200 Provision store = 100 (In military hospitals.) Fig. 73 shows the arrangement of closets and lavatory in a militaryhospital. HABITATIONS. 13 The two following plans show the arrangement of the LariboisiereHospital in Paris,1 which circumstances have made the type of the so-called block or pavilion plan ; and of the Herbert Hospital, which is thebest military hospital in this country, or perhaps anywhere. The Herbert Hospital at Woolwich consists of four double and threesingle pavilions of two floors each, all raised on basements. There is aconvalescents day-room in the centre pavilion. The administration is in aseparate block in front. The axis of the wards is a little to the east of north.There is a corridor in the basement, through which the food, medicines,

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